Artists & Authors

Join a literary insider for a behind-the-scenes tour of art heists, opera icons, and the golden age of publishing.From the author of Scribners: Five Generations in Publishing comes this new collection of personal essays reflecting on the past fifty years of his pursuits and passions in literature, art, and music. Beginning with a memoir of his fathers tutelage through letters to a young son away at school, it moves along to his dual professions on parallel tracksbook publishing and art history.Behind-the-scenes stories of famous Scribner authors F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Thomas Wolfe give way to the section on Scribners forte, the art of the Baroque masters: a murderous Caravaggio and the two tycoons Rubens and Bernini.From his role in a sting operation to recover a stolen Rubens painting on Miami Beach to his personal profiles of three luminous sopranosDame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Frederica von Stade, and Mary CostaScribner shares a fascinating peek into the life and loves of a Renaissance man.